according to this a PSA plane had a mid-air collision with a Cessna: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PSA_Flight_182
That was San Diego...Bad scene...midair....The neighborhood on the ground looked like it had been badly bombed...I was at the scene before not long after the crash....Ground damage was severe...
Afterwards people in San Diego had a saying, "No one rocks San Diego like PSA".
BTW, they saw the Cessna prior to impact, but kept talking carrying on conversation, lost site of it, and whammo....
Light out.
this was a different one, and i remember this one too... one of my mother’s co-workers was on this flight with her young son... it was the end of summer and they were returning to San Jose... school was about to begin... i still remember the pic on the front page of the San Jose Mercury News... it was of the airplane in a nose dive... very sad...